The case had been appealed to the arbitrament of steel and gunpowder.
The time had come when the warring sectional interests, prejudices and principles were ready to make final appeal to the brutal arbitrament of steel and gunpowder.
With her steel nose it was easily possible for her to ram and sink any ship of any type then in use without danger to herself.
Iron foundries, steel mills, machine shops, coke ovens, rolling mills and the like employ men by tens of thousands where before only a few hundreds compelled the reluctant soil to yield them a precarious living.
Illustration: Mr. Peter Steel driving the Gravel Pit at Blackheath, with forecaddie in distance.
They were of some composition, and were filled with steel filings.
The same good friend in the town arranged to have iron handles fixed to a pair ofsteel boat-hooks, which were to be used as picklocks.
And inasmuch as she was there, the rekindled fever of his love drew him thither, neither willing nor unwilling, but steel to the magnet, a moth to the star.
The border of wild thyme by the porch trembled like a row of fine steel springs as the wind passed over it, and gave out its offering of incense to the morning.
But I think he must have worn a steel cap, for although he fell, I knew I had not killed him.
Still when one is twenty-three one does not lack confidence, and youth will dare to rush bareheaded where an older man would hesitate to enter with a steel head-cap.
Here they were met by volleys of musketry and by rapid discharges of grape from two steel howitzers which were brought forward by the First Indiana Cavalry.
When the armies fairly met in the field and steelclashed against steel all this boasting on both sides was silenced, and North and South learned to respect each other for their soldierly qualities.
Almost every day there was a cock-fight in front of one of the tents, but it was generally bloodless, as nobody knew anything about handling the birds, and the steel gaffs were never used.
It was coming from the air-conditioner grille which was now covered by welded steel bars.
The slap of the button on flesh and the arc of steel that reached out and ended on Irolg's chest over his heart.
The first died suddenly as hands like steel claws found his neck and in a single spasmodic contraction did such damage to the large blood vessels there that they burst and tiny hemorrhages filled his brain.
There was only one thing in his universe: the button-tipped length of shining steel that hovered before him, engaging his own weapon.
Some of them are wide-awake and sharp as steel traps.
But dat gran'son ob mine is smart as a steel trap.
The chief articles of import are coal, grain, timber, copper, steel and wine, and the exports are manufactured goods principally to Russia and Scandivania.
The cell-dwellers heard the familiar, loud click of the steel bolts as the door at the end of the corridor was opened.
These villages were speedily surrounded by the green fields of husbandmen, until those roads were like necklaces of steel with emerald settings.
Steel railways now parallel those trails along which trains of prairie schooners slowly crept, and thousands of miles of steel branches radiate from them across vast areas hardly visited fifty years ago even by the explorer.
A flood of sunlight played on this gay scene, making the varnish of the carriages, the steel of the harness and the handles of the carriage doors shine with dazzling brilliancy.
He took up one with disgust, but he had hardly placed the curved steel point against it when it split open.
Numerous silent shadows glided among the trees and occasionally a blade of steel gleamed in the shadow as a ray of moonlight struck it.
His first act was to visit the Gnome King, with whom he made a bargain to exchange three drums, a trumpet and two dolls for a pair of fine steel runners, curled beautifully at the ends.
It was evident he could not go on, while the crackle of twigs, roar of hoofs, and jingle of steel behind him, made it plain that to turn was to ride back upon the carbines of men who would be quite willing to use them.
Then a faintly musical jingle of steel accompanied the beat of hoofs, and Winston glanced about him with a little laugh of annoyance.
There was nothing alarming in the greeting, but Winston recognized the ring of command, as well as the faint jingle of steel which had preceded it, and pressed his heels home.
The muffled thud of hoofs, and the crunching beneath the sliding steel seemed to intensify it, and there was a suggestion of frozen brilliancy in the sparkle flung back by the snow.
Huge projectiles churned up the ground all around, digging out deep holes, raising whirls of earth, throwing off shreds of stone and steel in every direction.
Mollica and the Bersaglierino had putsteel helmets on their heads and had shields of the same metal on their arms.
Above his head dangled horizontally the huge basket from which he had been flung by the shock of its sudden halt, and which swung on the steel cables of the filovia as if it were weary of being up there and eager to set about its job.
They held responsible positions in the mines and they came here to learn the steel business after having followed the ore all the way down.
Even the Iron and Steel Policeman who usually stood guard in the hall was not there.
It went on with a rush and a roar, interspersed with reverberating crashes, here and there, that sounded as though the steel roof were caving in.
You have the pluck and you will make your way to better things, in the steel business.
They hurried across the bridge, for it was already time they were reporting to the head melter at the furnace, and being late meant being docked, for there is no sentiment in the steel mills.
Then all I have to say is that you are the kind of young man that the steel company is looking for," announced Mr. Keating, pushing back the papers on his desk, toying thoughtfully with a paper cutter.
MEARS The author has made of these volumes a series of romances with scenes laid in the iron and steel world.
Besides this he was so used to seeing men injured, during his long service in the steel mills, that the sight of human suffering did not make the same impression upon him that might otherwise have been the case.
Steve had gone back to his work at the furnace, where he and Bob worked faithfully, becoming more and more familiar with the particular branch of the steel industry with which they were connected.
Several clerks, with coats and vests off, were lounging about the office of the great steel works in the accident department.
Steel is pig-iron combined with carbon and with the impurities boiled out.
It seemed to him like crowding himself on the attention of the president of the steel company, as well as the other officials who would be present.
The Iron Boys in theSteel Mills OR Beginning Anew in the Cinder Pits By JAMES R.
The foremost of the Iron and Steel Police made a grab for the fleeing lad, catching and whirling the boy around, facing in the opposite direction.
I'll have you turned over to the Iron and Steel Police if I hear any more of your impudence.
I found that the hardwood lining of both runners was broken at the curve, but the steel shoes were, though slightly bent, still sound.
I ran up the walk, my footsteps sounding hollowly in the steel shaft.
Their smooth faces and cropped hair and softly molded bodies looked strange against the functional steelangularity of the astrogation blister.
Elias knew that his sewing-machine would work, but he had no money wherewith to buy the materials for a machine of steel and iron, and without such a machine he could not hope to interest capital in it.
Among one of his first valuable achievements was a steel railroad frog that resulted in a good deal of money and some reputation.
The hand on his arm had given him a wrench that made him feel as if his flesh were caught between steel pincers.
But now that she danced that fled, and the gleam of flame-lit steel was in her eyes.
Their swelling bosses and flanks, sharp sometimes as the spines of animals, were steel coloured.
The circle of steel blades was steadily drawing closer.
Pink and gold tinted the cone-shaped peaks, the sky brightened from the color of steel to a clear cobalt, and all at once the world lay before us in the cool morning air, which the sun was soon to warm to a vapid heat.
Among these was a box of sandal-wood secured by bands of steel of Oriental workmanship, and inscribed with mystic characters known only to the learned few.
A steelhelmet studded with gems rose above his turban; his cuirass was embossed with gold; his cimeter and dagger were of the workmanship of Fez, and flamed with precious stones.
We was workin' on shaped steel plates, armor for the tanks.
They're workin' in a carload or so of wormy ash for the shovel handles, and some of the steel runs below test; but most of their stuff grades well.
What the Ordnance Department really wanted to know was whether the work was bein' speeded up proper, how many men on the shifts, and was the steel comin' through from the rollin' mills all right.
They're all doin' it, from the Steel Trust down to the push-cart men.
Every move is as smooth and silent as a steel lathe runnin' in an oil bath.
I glances around panicky, and gets the full benefit of a disgusted glare from a set of chilled steel eyes, and discovers that there's someone besides Vee and the nurse present.
The navigation bounties were granted only for iron and steel ships owned exclusively by Japanese subjects, and plying between Japan and foreign ports.
Iron or steel ships rated first class were entitled to these bounties.
The rates were thus fixed: for the first year after launching, iron orsteel steamers, six florins ($2.
DG] Three years before (1890), with the same object in view, a preliminary step had been taken in the exemption of all iron and steel steam and sailing ships from trading and income taxes while engaged in ocean voyages.
Ah live, Orestes, live: and I will keep This impious steel for thy adult right hand.
I see already Already to my breast that very steel I see hurled back, and by what hand!
There was nothing for the King to do but gather his men and dash into the fray to "let the hard steel ring upon the high helmet.
